​​There are over 600,000.00 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.

​There are over 75,000.00 foster youth and children living in California.

Over 22,000 youth exit foster care each year as adults.

In California, over 4,600 youth leave Foster Care every year.

40% of former foster youth experience homelessness in the first 18 months of emancipation.

Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only thirty eight percent (38%) have maintained employment for at least one year.

Youth in foster care are forty four percent (44%) less likely to graduate from high school and after emancipation, forty to fifty percent (40% – 50%) never complete high school.

Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population.

Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care.

3% will graduate with a four year degree

25% will experience the Criminal Justice System

38% will receive public assistance by age 21

Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

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